“I think a lot about what makes a strong female character. You know, movies and TV shows, these things have influence, my own website. So I think the question of “What makes a strong female character?”, often goes misinterpreted. And instead we get these two-dimensional superwomen, who maybe have one quality that’s played up a lot. Like, you know, a Catwoman type, or she plays her sexuality up a lot and it’s seen as power. But they’re not strong characters who happen to be female, they’re completely flat and they’re basically cardboard characters.
The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple. When in actuality, women are complicated. Women are multifaceted. Not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy. And women happen to be people!”

-Tavi Gevinson for TEDTalks [x]

kingslayer-:

i think i am actually DEAD WHY

I’m telling my daughter everyday, “You know you can be President? You know it’s possible?” and I know she has no idea why I’m saying that…

amanda-gayfried:

“I would be reading the scripts [to horror films] and it would be like, so terrible to women.”

filthavenue:

Hussein Chalayan. 2013

mtv:

Tyler with Frank Ocean’s mom at the Grammys.

Kerry Washington and Jamie Foxx on the set of the LA Confidential photoshoot

“I have been afraid to reveal this aspect of myself because people don’t like you to wear too many hats – they criticise you for it. I didn’t want it to be seen as disposable, because art is not disposable to me. When you do a movie or you are working in television, the people that you work with become your life; it is a very intimate experience that takes you somewhere emotionally. The experience of painting something has the same effect. Whether the painting is a success or a failure, the time that I was involved in it remains the same.” — Lucy Liu